• Follow us on Twitter @buckeyeplanet and @bp_recruiting, like us on Facebook! Enjoy a post or article, recommend it to others! BP is only as strong as its community, and we only promote by word of mouth, so share away!
  • Consider registering! Fewer and higher quality ads, no emails you don't want, access to all the forums, download game torrents, private messages, polls, Sportsbook, etc. Even if you just want to lurk, there are a lot of good reasons to register!

Lady Bucks Basketball Thread

Jump to latest Follow Reply
Sort by date Sort by votes
Watched a little bit of the women's game between Illinois and Wisconsin and the Lady Bucks are great to have their hands full later today. In fact, Illinois has beaten Ohio State already once the season. It should be a good game.
 
Upvote 0
The Lady Buckeyes lose to the Illini 64 -58 in the first round of the B10 tourney.

Thanks for the Great season and Championship ladies.

Ladies Basketball

INDIANAPOLIS - Illinois never considered itself the underdog against Ohio State.

Never mind the Buckeyes' top seed or No. 22 national ranking. The Fighting Illini fully expected to win their Big Ten tournament quarterfinal game last night.

Rebecca Harris scored 22 points, and Illinois beat the Buckeyes 64-58. Lori Bjork scored 14 points and Jenna Smith added 13 for the ninth-seeded Illini (18-13), who reached the semifinals for the first time since 2001.
 
Upvote 0
CPD

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL ROUNDUP
Illini knock out top-seeded OSU


Saturday, March 08, 2008 From wire reports
Rebecca Harris scored 22 points, and Illinois beat No. 22 Ohio State, 64-58, in the Big Ten Tournament quarterfinals in Indianapolis on Friday to knock the top seed out early.
Lori Bjork scored 14 points, and Jenna Smith added 13 for the ninth-seeded Fighting Illini (18-13), who reached the semifinals for the first time since 2001.
Marscilla Packer scored 15 of her 19 points in the second half for Ohio State (22-8), which lost its tournament opener for the first time in school history.
@StoryAd
Jantel Lavender, the conference's co-player of the year, added 14 points and 12 rebounds for the Buckeyes.
 
Upvote 0
Dispatch

Women's basketball: Illini take control of game, oust top-seeded Buckeyes

Saturday, March 8, 2008 3:13 AM
By Jim Massie


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
0308_osu_packer_sp_03-08-08_C1_TT9J59C.jpg
Darron Cummings Associated Press
Ohio State's Marscilla Packer, center, shoots under defensive pressure from Lacey Simpson, left, and Chelsea Gordon of Illinois during the first half.




INDIANAPOLIS -- History is only interesting to the winner. So what happened to the Ohio State women's basketball team last night in a quarterfinal of the Big Ten Tournament won't be told and retold around campfires for the next 100 years.
The Buckeyes, regular-season conference co-champions and the tournament's top seed, lost 64-58 to Illinois in Conseco Fieldhouse. The loss featured two bruises for the price of one.
It marked the first time in the tournament that a No. 9 seed upset the No. 1. Ohio State (22-8) also had never lost its first game in the 13-year history of the event. The postgame pain pounded like a migraine.



Cont...

Box Score
 
Upvote 0
It would be nice to see them win a few games in the NCAA tournament. It almost always seems that they win the Big 10 regular-season championship but get bounced out early in the NCAA. I am not complaining about the Big 10 championships but I just would like to see them progressed more in the NCAA's.
 
Upvote 0
I seem to remember that in previous years after going deep in the BTT they have seemed fatigued in the opening rounds of the NCAA's. Hopefully this year they will be fresh and hungry for a deep run in the NCAA.
 
Upvote 0
LitlBuck;1111082; said:
It would be nice to see them win a few games in the NCAA tournament. It almost always seems that they win the Big 10 regular-season championship but get bounced out early in the NCAA. I am not complaining about the Big 10 championships but I just would like to see them progressed more in the NCAA's.
Click to expand...

Right there with you on this. They are always tough in the B10 regular season and are typically tough in the B10 tournament. However, they usually seem to fall early in the NCAA. It makes you wonder if they lack confidence in their ability to compete on the big stage or what it is.
 
Upvote 0
Dispatch

Women's basketball
OSU gets time to reflect
Storm traps Buckeyes in Indianapolis, a day after upset loss in Big Ten tournament
Sunday, March 9, 2008 4:22 AM
By Jim Massie


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

INDIANAPOLIS -- About 180 miles west of blizzard central, the sun brought a spit-polished shine to the city yesterday but couldn't do much to warm the mood of the Ohio State women's basketball team.

The Buckeyes felt stuck, and in more ways than one. A 64-58 upset loss to Illinois on Friday night in a quarterfinal of the Big Ten tournament meant that top-seeded OSU had no basketball reason to stay in Indiana. Yet the storm and snow-covered roads in Ohio prevented the bus ride back to Columbus.
The only thing the players and coaching staff could do was wait. Really, waiting will dominate the next two weeks until the Buckeyes (22-8) learn how their season is viewed by the NCAA Tournament selection committee.

Continued......
Click to expand...
 
Upvote 0
gracelhink;1111173; said:
I seem to remember that in previous years after going deep in the BTT they have seemed fatigued in the opening rounds of the NCAA's. Hopefully this year they will be fresh and hungry for a deep run in the NCAA.
Click to expand...
So two weeks isn't enough rest? That's how much time there is between the end of the Big Ten Tournament and the NCAA's. Seems to me like two weeks should be plenty of time to rest up after playing three games in three days. You don't see the elite teams like Tennessee, UConn, North Carolina, LSU, etc. flop in the NCAA's after winning their conference tournaments. I don't think fatigue is the answer and if it is then there needs to be a complete overhaul on their philosophy on conditioning.
 
Last edited:
Upvote 0
Dispatch

Women's basketball: Buckeyes watch to see where seed lands

Monday, March 17, 2008 3:11 AM
By Jim Massie




Outside of Purdue and West Lafayette, Ind., the postseason women's conference basketball tournaments haven't been particularly kind to Ohio State or the rest of the Big Ten. While the Boilermakers won their way into the NCAA Tournament with three victories in Indianapolis, similar upsets in other tournaments could have an earthquake effect on the 64-team NCAA Tournament field when it is announced at 7 tonight.
OSU coach Jim Foster pointed to upset losses suffered by Texas-El Paso in Conference USA and Utah in the Mountain West that led to automatic bids for Southern Methodist and New Mexico, respectively.
Two teams that probably would not have made the field suddenly are in and that can't be good for the postseason prospects of bubble teams such as Minnesota and Michigan State.
"A fair amount of wrong teams won," Foster said. "The way that Utah dominated its league and the way UTEP did, you figure they're going to win. I would say that four Big Ten teams are in for sure."


Cont...
 
Upvote 0
From the Ozone front page:

ozone.net

Women's Basketball: Good news for the women's basketball team. Junior forward Star Allen has regained her eligibility and will participate in the NCAA tournament. Alan earned second team All-Big Ten honors last season, and was picked as a first team member in the pre-season poll this year. Alan set an all-time Big Ten record field goal percentage last season with .694 in conference games. Suspended after fall quarter to "concentrate on academics", she had already recorded two double-doubles.

Seeds for the women's NCAA tournament will be announced this evening at 7:00 PM on ESPN.
Click to expand...
 
Upvote 0
Dispatch

Women's basketball: Ohio State gets No.6 seed in NCAA Tournament

Monday, March 17, 2008 7:30 PM



BuckeyeXtra.com staff report

The Ohio State women's basketball team, co-champion of the Big Ten Conference's regular season, tonight received a sixth seed in the New Orleans Region of the NCAA Tournament.
The Buckeyes will play 11th-seeded Florida State (18-13) in a first-round game in Des Moines, Iowa, on Saturday. OSU enters the tournament with a 22-8 record that includes a 9-2 mark outside the Big Ten. The Buckeyes lost their first game in the Big Ten tournament,

Continued.........
Click to expand...
 
Upvote 0
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top